adventures – textiles – pictures

About this blog

Welcome to my blog!

I am a fashion designer and tailor and started this blog in 2011 with the main focus on sewing tutorials. You find 5.5 years worth of tutorials on this site and if you have any request for a sewing-, knitting-, crafting-, patternmaking-tutorial, please do not hesitate to ask!!!

Nonetheless, since teaching to sew is now my daily work, I lost some of my excitement to post new tutorials regularly. So I broadened the focus to

adventures: travels by bike, trains, feet, and what pieces of the world I (re)discover, sometimes just around the corner, sometimes farther away

textiles: of course I am still crafting in my free time, so you’ll see projects I am working on and finished, sewing, knitting, crocheting, weaving and whatever else comes to mind

pictures: I am still in love with analog photography, it helps me to see the small wonders in the world around me

English isn’t my native language, so please excuse any mistakes I’ll probably make. I hope you will still be able to understand me. I chose to do this blog in English because it is the language that most people learn or have to learn earlier or later in their life all over the world. My native language is German, I also know some Spanish and Danish. So if you have problems (like me sometimes) with special sewing words, look into my dictionary I’ll write down translations for them. If you don’t understand anything feel free to ask.

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Hi Tailor Fairy! My daughter would love to sew her own clothes, but we are having a lot of trouble adjusting clothes for a bust that is proportionally larger than the body the patterns are made for. Can you help us learn how to make these adjustments?

So her waist and shoulders need a smaller size then her bust? I could do a tutorial for that. Or did I misunderstand that? Then explain it again please and I will try to make a tutorial for the problem you have. So your daughter can soon make her own fitting clothes.

Is it how to adjust the pattern or also how to make alterations already bought? really would like to help you since I myself have some problems, with the clothes in most shops. If you want to you can also send me an email to tailorfairy(at)yahoo.com

Thank you for liking my post about My First Sewing Project. What an honor from someone like you! I wish I had discovered your blog even before I started. Then my stitches would probably not have been so bad… haha. But I’m glad you found me. I’m so blessed! May I check in here some time? I need all the help I can get and keep my excitement going! : )
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I would like to help with that, but that would be a little tricky. Sewing machines are all very similar, but also all different, so if I wanted to explain your sewing machine, I would need exactly the same machine. So its probably best you rely on your manual for that. 😉